[GRLUG] How to unquiely identify a smart phone on web site?

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Mar 27 15:33:52 EDT 2013


On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 12:31 -0700, Joseph McLaughlin wrote:
> I have a new vps. I would like limit access to its web pages to my own
> ip address and my own smart phone.
> I tried iptable to accept my ip and to drop all else.
> But I have not yet found a way to id my phone!

Certificate based authentication.   On recent-ish Android devices you
can import certificates from the SD [or I assume any 'local' storage].
Then you should be able to use an issued certificate to authenticate the
requests.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA



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